Chris Zannetos is a serial tech and education entrepreneur. He has founded and led three cybersecurity companies, including IAM pioneer Courion. At Courion he drove the delivery of the industry's first self-service password reset, access governance, and identity analytics products - and the growth of the company to serve over 700 enterprises and governments worldwide.
He also is the founder of STEMatch (www.STEMatch.org), a 501c3 non-profit the builds company-school collaborations to make cybersecurity and other tech careers more access to people in lower-income, rural and other underserved communities - while helping companies access a traditionally-untapped, job-ready talent pool. STEMatch's COMPETE workforce development program has been recognized by CSO Magazine as a top cybersecurity workforce program, and has received expansion grants from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and State of Maryland. Over 90% of COMPETE students are deemed ready for hire by STEMatch partners such as Draper Laboratory, Mimecast, The Federal Reserve Bank, Roon Cyber, athenahealth, and Inrupt.